MADRID (AFP) — Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has been selected in the nine-man Spanish team for the UCI Elite Road World Championships in Florence, Italy, next week.

The 30-year-old Saxo-Tinkoff rider is joined by last year’s bronze medalist in the elite road race, Alejandro Valverde, and Joaquim Rodríguez, who finished fourth behind third-placed Valverde in the recently completed Vuelta a España.

Contador is one of only two members the team not to have ridden in the three-week Spanish tour, having taken a break following a disappointing fourth-place finish in the Tour de France in July.